March 27, 1847

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Features

Departments

To Wine Bibbers

Departments

The Lay of the Laborer

Sons of Labor

Dark Grief

Theory and Practice

Education in America

Late from the Army

Late from Europe

Mammoth Ox

New Use for the Telegraph

New Boat for the Sound

Progress of Romanism

In the wrong Box

A Cotton Gin for Russia

Improved Newspaper

Hot House Vegetables in England

A Singular Case

Going to Retire

Black Walnut

Celestial Phenomenon

Concert

Still Burning

Conveyance for the Wounded

The Gem of the Prairie,

Enterprise in Buffalo

Enterprise of Troy

Turn the Carpet

Lightning

Popular Misery

A Cold Insult

Golden Eagle

A Fact for Rum-advocates

Sport on the Rio Grande

European Items

Dodge's Improved Boiler

Mr. Blanchard's Invention

New Covering for Roofs

New Wood Screw Machine

New Mortising Machine

Improved Railroad Coupling

Improvement in Light Houses

Portable Cottages

Artificial Marble

Rock-boring Machine

Improvement in the Cotton Gin

Veneering Machine

A New Printing Press

Theory of Storms

Emerson's Ventillator

The Inventor's Institute

Liberal and Honorable

Magnetic Telegraph

Mechanic's Advocate, Esq. ;--

Mechanics

Parley's Magazine and Merry's Museum

Scientific Discoveries of the Age

Large Timber

Heavy Guns

Ragged Schools in London

Ranlett's Architect

Shameful Negligence

Sulphate in Batteries

The Influence of Horticulture upon the Human Character

To New Subscribers

The Scientific American

Dreadful Shipwreck

Great Snow

Bordentown

First Newspapers in New England

To Correspondents

The Origin of Lowell

A Decided Compliment

Perpetual Time Teller

Answer by Mail

Hats vs. Boots

The New York Scientific American

The Wave Principle in Ship Building

Solders for Brass and Copper

Chromium

Railroads in the United States

Japanning Black

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